The Pulitzer Prize
Below is a list of the Pulitzer Prize Winners since 1965.2025
Fiction: James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
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Nonfiction: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press)
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2024
Fiction: Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips (Alfred A. Knopf)
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Nonfiction: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall (Macmillan Publishers)
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2023
Fiction: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
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Nonfiction: His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking Press)
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2022
Fiction: The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen (NYRB US)
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Nonfiction: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott (Random House)
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2021
Fiction: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins Publishers)
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Nonfiction: Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino (Ecco Press)
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2004
Fiction: The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
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Nonfiction: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)
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2003
Fiction: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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Nonfiction: A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (Basic Books)
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2002
Fiction: Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
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Nonfiction: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (Simon & Schuster)
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2001
Fiction: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
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Nonfiction: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
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2000
Fiction: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Nonfiction: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
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1999
Fiction: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
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Nonfiction: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
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1998
Fiction: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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Nonfiction: Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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1997 Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
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1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford
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1995 Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
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1994 Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
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1993 Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
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1992 Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
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1991 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
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1990 Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
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1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
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1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
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1987 Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
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1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
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1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
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1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy
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1983 Color Purple by Alice Walker
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1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
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1981 Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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1980 Executioners Song by Norman Mailer
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1979 Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
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1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
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1977 No Award
1976 Humbolts Gift by Saul Bellow
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1975 Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
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1974 No Award
1973 Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty
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1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
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1971 No Award
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
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1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
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1968 Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
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1967 Fixer by Bernard Malamud
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1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
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1965 Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
